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Name Your Baby IUMA! – iuma.com, an online music site, has launched the “Name your baby Iuma” contest. Taking marketing to a whole new level, IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive) will pay parents $5,000 or New Music for life to name their child Iuma.
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Obscene Interiors – A professional interior designer and a self-proclaimed “Smartass Designer Extrodinaire(sic)” take a look at, and comment on the horrors of interior design in Amateur Porn photos.
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Love Hurts – Registration is required to read this article. Some guy proposes to his girlfriend, she accepts, and he goes psycho. He tells her he has a surprise for her, and takes her to the landscaping business where he works. He tells her to close her eyes and lie down, then he lays down…
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Fairtunes.com Y’know, I enjoy a free ride every now and again, just like anyone else… Napster is a great way to fill your hard drive with MP3s, and I love sticking it to the record companies… but I know that while I am screwing the record companies out of their profits, I am also screwing…
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I am SO pissed off about Survivor … Rich and his alliance ruined the whole show… As long as he doesn’t win, I could probably live with the outcome. But GOD! Is he ever a DICK! … Is there really any point to watching it from here on in? The only way it could end…
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First DVD Recorder Debuts Panasonic just released the first consumer DVD recorder, the DMR-E10… this bad boy will cost you about $4,000 right now, but watch the price drop as other consumer electronics companies get in the game. Goodbye VCR.
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Mark Burnett comes clean – Burnett and gang have admitted that they were the ones behind the little hoax that spurred weeks of speculation about who won the $1 million Survivor jackpot. According to the New York Post, he was behind the decision to doctor the CBS website to look like they accidentally revealed that…
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Got more nipples than you know what to do with? The Third Nipple is a site whose missions is “To help those people with additional nipples to grow and function as productive members of society through knowledge, counseling, self-empowerment, and regular encouragement.”
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States Accuse Record Labels of Price Fixing – So the record labels, in their haste to sue everyone and anyone that poses a threat to their profits, have now been sued. Twenty-eight states filed suit against the “big five”, accusing them of fixing prices of compact discs… hmmm… think so? The damn things cost pennies…
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Indentured Servitude All major label record deals suck and this is why. Highlights: “The numbers are so stacked against the people making the music that, as recent Atlantic Records signee David Garza noted, “It only works for the artist if more than a million copies are sold. Period.” The obvious problem with that, of course,…